Improvement in pump-handles



aw W 3 W m m v WITNESSES PATENT OFFICE;

ISAAC N. FRAZER, OF ELMER, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN PUMP-HANDLES,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,269, dated January 28, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC N. FRAZER, of Elmer, in the county of Salem and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Pump'Handles, of which the followin g is a specification:

Myvinvention relates to a pump-handle, which'is bifurcated to give a drawing and easy motion thereto, and thereby greater effectiveness than is possessed by an ordinary rigid lever.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved handle. Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Like letters in both figures indicate the same parts.

The lever, or as it is commonly called, the handle, I make of two pieces, A B, joined together at a: and confined by means of bolts a a and a fulcrum-piece, O, which is made of iron and connected with the piece A and confined by means of a nut, D. The outer end of the piece B is provided with a hole, b, for connecting it with the piston-rod. The fulcrumpiece 0 has a hole, I), for connecting it with the fulcrum-pin, with which a bracket or other fixed part of the pump is provided in the usual manner.

The upper end of the fulcrum-piece O supports the outer end of the piece 13 when the handle-end of the shaft A is borne down. The piece A B may be formed out of a single piece, if desired, by cutting away the superfluous wood between them.

I claim as my invention- A bifurcated pump-handle, or lever, composed of the parts A B O, substantiallyin the manner and for the purpose set forth.

ISAAC N. FRAZER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS J. BEWLEY, STEPHEN USTICK. 

